GRAIN

GRAIN "is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

"GRAIN was established at the beginning of the 1990s to launch a decade of popular action against one of the most pervasive threats to world food security: genetic erosion. The loss of biological diversity, undermines the very sense of "sustainable development" as it destroys options for the future and robs people of a key resource base for survival."

Cofounded by Henk Hobbelink and Renee Vellve.

Directors
Accessed May 2009:


 * P.V. Satheesh, Chair (Deccan Development Society, India)
 * Maria Fernanda Vallejo (Heifer Foundation, Ecuador)
 * Meriem Louanchi (Institut National Agronomique, Algeria)
 * Paul Nicholson (EHNE, Spain)
 * Silvia Ribeiro (ETC Group, Mexico)
 * Assetou Samake (Mali)
 * Supa Yaimuang (Alternative Agriculture Network, Thailand)

Funding
The organisation has currently an annual budget of close to 900.000 Euros, and the most important donors are:


 * Novib, Netherlands (www.novib.nl/en/ )
 * Trocaire, Ireland (www.trocaire.org/ )
 * Brot für die Welt, Germany (www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/ )
 * Misereor/KZE, Germany (www.misereor.de )
 * Swissaid, Switzerland (www.swissaid.ch )
 * SwedBio, Sweden (www.swedbio.com )
 * Fund for Sustainable Biodiversity Management, Netherlands (www.hivos.nl )
 * Brot für Alle, Switzerland (www.bfa-ppp.ch/ )

Contact

 * Web: http://www.grain.org